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This web site provides Allergy & Immunology Training Program Directors curriculum and assessment tools to address ACGME competencies. These downloadable tools are generally in a Word format so they can be readily modified to fit each program's needs. We thank the members of the Program Directors Assembly RRC committee and individual Program Directors who have contributed tools for this web site. If you have comments or new tools to contribute, please contact the RRC committee leadership: http://www.aaaai.org/members/only/cmte/interestSectionsCommittees.asp?csid=22&cmtid=353
To submit new materials, please email Katie Muellenbach at kmuellenbach@aaaai.org.
- ACGME and Program Information Form resources
- A&I RRC web page
- A&I Best Practices web page (more tools)
- The competencies
- Short version
- Examples of competency based Goals and Objectives
- Curriculum
- Patient Care
- Medical Knowledge
- Required courses, statistics courses, board review course
- Abbas or Janeway immunology text review
- Example of web based video conferencing software
- Introduction to the Principles and Practice of Clinical Research, web archived lectures on a variety of topic
- Web videos of Allergy/Immunology relevant talks
- Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
- Portfolios
- Thematic Clinical Allergy/Immunology journal club
- Clinical case conferences
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- Document sexual harassment and/or workplace communications training
- NIH web videos that address the "other 3" competencies
- Document training fellow for patient education in anaphylaxis and Epi-pen use
- Document fellows have read or discussed the book: Field Guide to the Difficult Patient Interview by Platt FW, Gordon GH. Lippincott,Williams & Wilkins; 1999.
- Review patient safety tips, exercises in addressing racial disparities at US Department of Health and Human Services Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
- Professionalism
- If ethics training is mandatory at your university, document attendance.
- Utilize AMA Virtual Mentor web site ethics cases for discussion
- NIH web videos
- Systems-Based Practice
- Document completion of Human Participant Protections: Education for Research Teams web based training
- Document attendance at an IRB meeting
- Document attendance at Quality Assurance meetings
- NIH web videos
- Document billing, reimbursement or ICD-9 training
- Document HIPPA and/or confidentiality training
- Document library training for literature searches
- Document teaching cost-effective healthcare and resource allocation
- Institute for healthcare improvement; includes audio and web programs on "best practice knowledge"
- Achieving Competence Today: curriculum on health care systems and quality improvements.
- Evaluation/Documentation
- Patient Care
- Rotation evaluation by attending (Doc1, Doc2, Doc3, Doc4)
- Mini-CEX
- OSCE's
- Standardized evaluation of fellow chart notes (Doc1, Doc2)
- Review case logs
- Remedial clinical experiences as needed
- Direct observation of procedural skills
- Medical Knowledge
- Practice-Based Learning and Improvement
- Portfolio evaluation
- Rotation evaluation by attending (Doc1, Doc2, Doc3)
- Case presentation evaluations
- Interpersonal and Communication Skills
- Professionalism
- Rotation evaluation by attending (Doc1, Doc2, Doc3)
- Evaluation of fellows' presentations, journal clubs
- Documentation of publications, abstracts, oral presentations in Portfolio
- Evaluation of Fellows' Research (Doc1, Doc2)
- Systems-Based Practice
- Rotation evaluation by attending (Doc1, Doc2, Doc3)
- Completion of Human Participant Protections: Education for Research Teams web based exam, print out certificate.
- Portfolio items documenting fellow participation in Quality Assurance activities, practice analysis, HMO approval issues, etc.
- Life curriculum. key articles on resident fatigue and impairment; teachers guide and assessment tools for residents provided
- Other evaluations
- Annual Fellows' Evaluation of Program
- ABAI resident evaluation form and procedural skills summary
- American Board of Allergy and Immunology -Evaluation
- American Board of Allergy and Immunology - Procedural Skills
- ACGME resident case log system
- E*Value or other electronic evaluation coordination system to administer evaluations
- Documentation/evaluation of fellows' presentations, journal clubs (form)
- Multisource feedback form (resembles a 360°)
- Other specific content
- Duty hours, physician impairment,
- NIH web videos
- Duke/UNC LIFE CD-ROM set:(covers fatigue, impaired physicians, etc.
- Introduction to the Principals & Practice of Clinical Research course web archives
- Additional Resources
- AAAAI TPD/Dartmouth web site
- ACGME RSVP showcase of curriculum and evaluation works in progress
- ACGME Assessment tools for Communications, Professionalism, Practice Based Learning, Patient Care
- Sample PIF Essays
- Other materials